[PATCH 3/4] perf util: Add evsel__taskstate() to parse the task state info instead

[Ze Gao]

Now that we have the __prinf_flags() parsing routines, we add a new
helper evsel__taskstate() to extract the task state info from the
recorded data.

Signed-off-by: Ze Gao <zegao@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h |  1 +
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
index 98edf42fcf80..bc256bdc58d9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.c
@@ -2906,7 +2906,7 @@ search_op(struct tep_format_field *prev_state_field, struct tep_print_arg *arg)
 	return sym;
 }
 
-static __maybe_unused const char *get_states(struct tep_format_field *prev_state_field)
+static const char *get_states(struct tep_format_field *prev_state_field)
 {
 	struct tep_print_flag_sym *sym;
 	struct tep_print_arg *arg;
@@ -2930,6 +2930,40 @@ static __maybe_unused const char *get_states(struct tep_format_field *prev_state
 	}
 	return NULL;
 }
+
+char evsel__taskstate(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample, const char *name)
+{
+	static struct tep_format_field *prev_state_field;
+	static const char *states;
+	struct tep_format_field *field;
+	unsigned long long val;
+	unsigned int bit;
+	char state = '?'; /* '?' denotes unknown task state */
+
+	field = evsel__field(evsel, name);
+
+	if (!field)
+		return state;
+
+	if (!states || field != prev_state_field) {
+		states = get_states(field);
+		if (!states)
+			return state;
+		prev_state_field = field;
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Note since the kernel exposes TASK_REPORT_MAX to userspace
+	 * to denote the 'preempted' state, we might as welll report
+	 * 'R' for this case, which make senses to users as well.
+	 *
+	 * We can change this if we have a good reason in the future.
+	 */
+	val = evsel__intval(evsel, sample, name);
+	bit = val ? ffs(val) : 0;
+	state = (!bit || bit > strlen(states)) ? 'R' : states[bit-1];
+	return state;
+}
 #endif
 
 bool evsel__fallback(struct evsel *evsel, int err, char *msg, size_t msgsize)
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
index d791316a1792..55a7a6210513 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/evsel.h
@@ -338,6 +338,7 @@ struct perf_sample;
 void *evsel__rawptr(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample, const char *name);
 u64 evsel__intval(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample, const char *name);
 u64 evsel__intval_common(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample, const char *name);
+char evsel__taskstate(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample, const char *name);
 
 static inline char *evsel__strval(struct evsel *evsel, struct perf_sample *sample, const char *name)
 {
-- 
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